waybar-cffi(5)

NAME

waybar - cffi module

DESCRIPTION

The cffi module gives full control of a GTK widget to a third-party dynamic library, to create more complex modules using different programming languages.

CONFIGURATION

Addressed by cffi/<name>

module_path:
typeof: string
The path to the dynamic library to load to control the widget.

expand:
typeof: bool
default: false
Enables this module to consume all left over space dynamically.

Some additional configuration may be required depending on the cffi dynamic library being used.

EXAMPLES

  C example:

An example module written in C can be found at https://github.com/Alexays/Waybar/resources/custom_modules/cffi_example/

Waybar config to enable the module:
    "cffi/c_example": {
    	"module_path": ".config/waybar/cffi/wb_cffi_example.so"
    }

STYLE

The classes and IDs are managed by the cffi dynamic library.